Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.Simone Weil
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
Simone Weil
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Simone Weil
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
Simone Weil
The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.
Simone Weil
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Simone Weil
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